Plant gossips… are almost cotton!

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Old rural parks support higher biodiversity than forest remnants. That is, because they are at least much higher with large-diameter dead wood types, which increases diversity mediated by big wood chunks.

Title price: funny edition: The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in understanding invasion biology. That is for conclusion marketting! And indeed, there’s room to reflect upon failed invasions, because many studies of invasives try to correlate success with characteristics (we aim to predictability of invasions!).

RD Zenni & MA Nuñez (2013). The elephant in the room: the role of failed invasions in understanding invasion biology. OIKOS DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.00254.x